{"id":3029,"date":"2017-01-27T12:22:04","date_gmt":"2017-01-27T12:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kildare.ie\/ehistory\/?p=3029"},"modified":"2025-10-29T10:54:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T10:54:35","slug":"a-well-known-naas-landmark-to-disappear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/a-well-known-naas-landmark-to-disappear\/","title":{"rendered":"A WELL-KNOWN NAAS LANDMARK TO DISAPPEAR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Leinster Leader<\/em>\u00a022 August 1953<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>A WELL-KNOWN NAAS LANDMARK TO DISAPPEAR<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This narrow, twisting, hump-backed Limerick Bridge, over the Corbally Bank of the Grand Canal at Jigginstown, Naas, which has been the scene of many accidents, is shortly being removed. \u00a0Work is presently in progress on the construction of a new thoroughfare and bridge to the south, which when completed will cut off several bad bends and make the old road and present bridge obsolete.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leinster Leader\u00a022 August 1953 A WELL-KNOWN NAAS LANDMARK TO DISAPPEAR This narrow, twisting, hump-backed Limerick Bridge, over the Corbally Bank of the Grand Canal at Jigginstown, Naas, which has been the scene of many accidents, is shortly being removed. \u00a0Work is presently in progress on the construction of a new thoroughfare and bridge to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-built-heritage"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Kildare Local Studies","author_link":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/author\/localstudies\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7917,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3029\/revisions\/7917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}